Drugs

Commission on Drug Policy recommended that recreational drugs be decriminalized in 2011. According to the Global Commission’s report, the war on drugs, as coined by Pres. Nixon, has been ineffective and has actually harmed those it strove to protect. The recommendations of decriminalization are given in hopes to alleviate the problems current drug policy does not adequately address. Many social problems have arisen from the drug war and the policies it has caused. Recreational drugs such as…

Drug Trafficking: An Analysis of Drug Trafficking Between the U.S. and Mexico The illegal drug trade is also called the black market where people manufacture, distribute, and the sale of drugs like cocaine, marijuana, and heroine. The trade of illegal drugs happens globally whether it is traveling by a ship, car, or plane. Everyday drug trafficking affects a person's life and the nation's economy by the flow of money to other countries and the increase of violence. Drug trafficking in Mexico is…

Do drugs hurt society? In 2014 the FBI reported 1,561,231 arrests for drug law violations. 83.1% of those arrests (1,297,383) were for possession of a controlled substance. Annually the U.S. spends more than $51,000,000,000 on the war on drugs. The U.S. has the highest incarceration rate in the world at 1 in 111 adults. There are countless stories of people overdosing on drugs, people who are arrested for possessing these drugs even if they are responsible users. There are hard questions that…

amount of money spent on the war to fight drugs, Americans have not been successful. The war on drugs main focus was to fight the crimes against drugs instead of trying to prevent the problem. As many know crime prevention may take time, it is not something that happens automatically. The campaign Americans have heard from all our president that will eliminate the drug problem has not been successful. Plain and simple Americans can’t battle the war on drugs from the stand point society is…

finally end this “War on Drugs” that has wreaked havoc on our society for almost half a century, by fostering organized crime while turning otherwise law abiding citizens into criminals. Caulkins, J. P., Reuter, P., Iguchi, M. Y., & Chiesa, a. (2005). How goes the "War on drugs" : An assessment of U.S. drug problems and policy. Retrieved from Rand Organization: http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/occasional_papers/2005/RAND_OP121.pdf This is a report on the “War on Drugs” by the Rand…

the doctor whose drugs are most effective among the games? Performance enhancing drugs are the substances that can help athletes improve the physical condition, skills, or even the result of the game. The use of these drugs in sport is widely known as ‘doping’. As doping helps athletes to perform, the issue of drugs in sporting competition should be allowed or not, has long been debated. However, some potential problems will be occurred when lifting ban on doping, leading to drugs abuse and the…

Prescription Drug abuse Pharmaceutical drug overdoses has become one of the leading causes of death in our nation. When you get sick you go to the Doctors and get antibiotics to get well quicker. We are a nation built on quick and easy fixes. Our value of conveniently easy fixes has lead to over prescribing. Now is the supplier at fault for this abuse or is the supplyie. Do we point the finger at drug companies who push their products while minimizing the potential risks and side effects? Is it…

Cough Medicine to Dangerous Drug The article “The Heroine Drug History & Facts,” published by Heroininfo.org, (2010) is about heroin’s background and where most of the heroin is produced from today. The article notes that “diacetylmorphine,” which derives from the opium in poppy plants, was created in 1874 by a chemist in England named C. R. Alder Wright when he conducted an experiment in which he boiled morphine with other “various acids”. The drug did not gain much traction until it was…

first laws pertaining to the illegalization of drugs started on a state and local level rather than federal. Anti-drug laws have been established in the United States with the earliest one dating back to an ordinance passed by San Francisco in 1875 against the use of opium dens (Fisher, 2014). Over the past 40 years, The War on Drugs is a phrase commonly associated with the United States government effort to eradicate the use and distribution of drugs by means of legislation and law enforcement.…

Over the years, the idea about legalizing drugs has always been a discussion. Although we use the general term, there was no specific type of “drug” mentioned in these arguments. It is obvious that some are more harmful than others, but overall, each drug could be as addicting than any other. There are many different drugs that have different effects. In my opinion, man-made stimulant drugs seem to cause more harm to their users more than “natural” drugs such as cannabis. To some people,…